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To Mary Milroy From RH Milroy June 17 1862

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Camp Near Mt. Jackson
June 17th 1862
My Dear Mary
I wrote to you two days ago very fully
about matters here and only write now to introduce you
to my Military Clerk F. A. Welton, who has been with
me since the beginning of the last or rather present cam
paign and is a soldier of the 9th Ind. and goes home now
because he has been in bad health and to take my horse
Jasper home. “Alf” (as we call our clerk) is a most
excellent boy and will tell you about matters here. He
will return again in a few weeks. I also send you by
Alf $329.--($200 in treasury notes & $129, in a draft on
N. York) Thompson will pay you the cash for the draft—
it is payable to you and you must endorse by writing your name
across the back of it when you take it to Thompson. I also
send you a box of Sundrey surplus old clothes & other things
that I do not need—some books-a ring-sugar-photograph
etc. & etc.—But my dear Jasper is the most important
item I send you. I think he may recover from his wounds
I commend him especially to Ben’s care & I know that he will attend
him right—His shoes had better be taken off & he kept out
in pasture till he gets well—He will make a splendid buggy
horse for a man to drive—but I fear he will be too fiery and & playful

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Camp Near Mt. Jackson
June 17th 1862
My Dear Mary
I wrote to you two days ago very fully
about matters here and only write now to introduce you
to my Military Clerk F. A. Welton, who has been with
me since the beginning of the last or rather present cam
paign and is a soldier of the 9th Ind. and goes home now
because he has been in bad health and to take my horse
Jasper home. “Alf” (as we call our clerk) is a most
excellent boy and will tell you about matters here. He
will return again in a few weeks. I also send you by
Alf $329.--($200 in treasury notes & $129, in a draft on
N. York) Thompson will pay you the cash for the draft—
it is payable to you and you must endorse by writing your name
across the back of it when you take it to Thompson. I also
send you a box of Sundrey surplus old clothes & other things
that I do not need—some books-a ring-sugar-photograph
etc. & etc.—But my dear Jasper is the most important
item I send you. I think he may recover from his wounds
I commend him especially to Ben’s care & I know that he will attend
him right—His shoes had better be taken off & he kept out
in pasture till he gets well—He will make a splendid buggy
horse for a man to drive—but I fear he will be too fiery and & playful

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This item is owned by the Jasper County Public Library. Permission to publish or reproduce this item is required and must be obtained from the Director of the Jasper County Public Library, Rensselaer, Indiana. Please visit www.myjcpl.org for more information.